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Max Finder Mystery Collected Casebook Volume 1 Review

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Max Finder Mystery Collected Casebook Volume 1 ReviewIn the town of Whispering Meadows there are no lack of cases for Max Finder and his cohort Alison Santos to work on. Finding the culprit can sometimes be very tricky, but between the two of them, their sharp thinking and powers of observation they are great at cracking cases. If you think you can figure out whodunit you are welcome to travel along as they crack ten very sweet and difficult cases at school and around town. Can you cut the mustard and solve them before either one of them claims to know the answer to the mystery? Here are a few cases in this book for the young detectives tried solve:
* The Case of the Basketball Card Foul: Ethan Webster, a snotty but decent basketball player, brought his "limited edition McGrady rookie card" to school and someone stole it. A girl called Mega-Con Comics & Cards to inquire about the value of the card and the weekend show. Hmmmm!
* The Case of the Midnight Scratcher: Leslie was having a bunch of her friends over for her birthday. She received an "Avril Elliot CD"for her birthday. During the night someone gouged Gabrielle's initials in it. She was also seen up during the night. Did she dislike Avril that much?
* The Case of the Stereo-Smashing Spook: Tony's dad donated a stereo as a prize for the school's Halloween dance and he won it when he wasn't supposed to even enter the contest. When no one was looking . . . "CRASH!" It was tossed down the stairs. Gee, did someone hate Tony enough to wreck the stereo?
* The Case of the Soapy Switch: Nanda Kanwar was selling chocolate for charity in hopes she would win a snowboard if she sold the most. Someone swiped her chocolate and left soap behind. She was really upset because she was sooooo close to winning. Would they catch the "soap switcher" before the contest was over?
The cases in this book are fun, but the reader really has to be observant to figure out whodunit in most of these cases. If you put on your thinking cap and closely observe the scenes of the crime you'll stand a good chance of solving them along with Max and Alison. There will probably be a few that will stump you and you'll have to flip to the back of the book to find the culprit. I enjoyed them all and will not admit how many times I had to peek in the back, if at all.
Max is a fact finder and before he presents a new mystery he'll tell you about an interesting fact like "the tongue of a blue whale weighs more than a full-grown elephant." The duo quickly develops a "suspect list" and work hard to solve their mysteries. Of course guys like Basher McGintley, the "Planet's biggest bully," always seem to be the type I'd suspect, but these little mysteries are so well done it really is hard to peg the culprit at times. In addition to the cases there are numerous puzzles and "extra stuff" to do. If you have a youngster who enjoys the graphic novel format and loves a good mystery, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at this collected casebook.Max Finder Mystery Collected Casebook Volume 1 Overview

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The Ghost Sonata (Gilda Joyce) Review

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The Ghost Sonata (Gilda Joyce) ReviewThe Gilda Joyce books have now officially earned the coveted spot on my top shelf, beside such classics as 'The Prydain Chronicles', 'Lord of the Rings', 'The Underland Chronicles', and 'The Dark is Rising Sequence'. They just keep getting better and better, funnier and funnier. And 'The Ghost Sonata' is no different.
When her friend Wendy is chosen in a prestigious contest to go to Oxford, England, and compete in a piano competition, Gilda is thrilled. Due to a technicality, she's able to go along with Wendy -- as her page-turner. But something is wrong -- someone or something is slipping Wendy and the other competitors tarot cards bearing terrifying dooms upon them. To add to this, Wendy is hearing strange music in her head, and thinks she's either going insane or being haunted by a ghost: the ghost of a young boy named Charles Drummond, who had her number -- nine -- in the very same competition she is currently in, and who was a brilliant composer before his death at the age of fourteen -- a death that Gilda believes was not entirely accidental.
If there was one thing I wasn't thrilled about in this book, it was that Wendy gets nearly as much page time as Gilda, and while Wendy is a good character, she's not GILDA. There wasn't any less humor, though, and I understand why Wendy needed some scenes to herself. They were perfect complements to each other: Gilda the wacky, extremely eccentric one who enjoys telling people about her psychic investigative work, and Wendy, who is rational and smart and dry-humored.
Another excellent entry in the series. Highly recommended, and I can't wait for the next book.Rating: MasterpieceThe Ghost Sonata (Gilda Joyce) Overview

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So Yesterday Review

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So Yesterday Review"The guy walking past was wearing a shirt five sizes too big (innovated by gangbangers to hide guns in their waistbands), shorts down below his knees (innovated by surfers to save their thighs from getting sunburned), and oversized shoes (innovated by skaters to save their feet from injury). Together all of these once-practical ideas made the guy look like he'd been hit by a shrink ray and was about to disappear into his clothes screaming, 'Help me!' in an ever-tinier voice."
Why did our ninth grader begin wearing pajama pants to school? Why, when she wears them, must the top of those pajama pants be folded over just so, to reveal the tag and the inside of the waistband? Why did Target start carrying rack after rack of pajama pants in dozens of patterns?
How about a couple of years ago, when all of the kids I knew began either buying peds or feeling compelled to fold their regular white socks down into their shoes so that no part was revealed to the public? Why did they begin to lace their shoes in a manner that caused the kids to fall out of them every fifth step (or to land on their faces if they actually tried running in them)?
Why, also a number of years back, did an army of girls begin wearing sweatshirts over only their arms?
It doesn't matter at which middle school I booktalk. Wherever I look, the kids will simultaneously begin making the same "fashion statement."
And does anybody really think that Britney, Madonna, Christina, or Beyonce themselves think up those looks that are eagerly copied by millions?
"One thing about being a Cool Hunter, you realize one simple fact: Everything has a beginning.
"Nothing always existed. Everything had an Innovator."
Hunter Braque is a Cool Hunter. Jen Jones is an Innovator. Their chance meeting in Manhattan's East River Park leads to a wild and intense three day roller coaster ride for the pair, and takes readers on a reality trip into the big stakes world of fashion fads and trends.
I'm no babe in the woods, myself. I'm a guy with a degree in Business, who once earned an "A" in Marketing as manager of the group that won that semester's computer-simulated car manufacturing competition. But I picked up all sorts of fascinating information while my eyes were glued to SO YESTERDAY. For instance, Hunter tells this story which actually ties in with those three days we follow Jen and him through New York City:
"Start with a mollusk, wind up with an empire.
"Sounds tricky, but the Phoenicians managed it about four thousand years ago. Their tiny sliver of a kingdom was wedged between the Mediterranean Sea and a vast desert: no gold mines, no olive trees, no amber waves of grain anywhere in sight. The only thing the Phoenicians had going for them was a certain species of shellfish, commonly found lying around down at the beach. These shellfish were tasty but had one problem--if you ate too many of them, your teeth turned purple.
"Naturally, most people were annoyed by this. They probably said stuff like, 'Those shellfish aren't bad, but who wants purple teeth?' and didn't think much more about it.
"Then one day an ancient Innovator got this crazy idea...
"Okay, imagine you live in Egypt or Greece or Persia back then and you're rich. You've got all the gold, olive oil, and grain you want. But all you ever get to wear is cloth robes that come in the following colors: light beige, medium beige, dark beige. You've seen the Bible movies: everyone's totally decked out in earth tones--that's all they had, that's all they could imagine having.
"Then one day along comes a boatload of Phoenicians, and they're selling purple cloth. Purple!
"Throw that beige wardrobe away!
"For a while purple is the thing, the biggest fad since that whole wheel craze. After a lifetime spent wearing sixteen shades of beige, everyone's lining up to buy the cool new cloth. The price is crazy high, partly due to demand and partly because it happens to take about 200,000 shellfish to make one ounce of dye, and pretty soon the Phoenicians are rolling in dough (actually they're rolling in gold, olive oil, and grain, but you get the picture).
"A trading empire is born. And talk about branding: Phoenicia is the ancient Greek word for 'purple.' You are what you sell.
"After a while, however, an interesting thing happens. The people in charge decide that purple is too cool for just anyone to wear. First they put taxes on purple cloth, then pass a law against the hoi polloi wearing purple (as if they could afford it), and finally make purple robes the sole property of kings and queens.
"Over the centuries this dress code becomes so widespread and so ingrained that even now, four thousand years later, the color purple is still associated with royalty throughout Europe. And all this because an Innovator who lived forty centuries ago figured he could make something cool out of the purple-teeth problem."
I've been a major fan and advocate of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LARRY and FEED, two outstanding books that include themes of American consumer compulsion and overindulgence. SO YESTERDAY is one heck of a companion to both of these titles. Through Hunter and Jen's harrowing adventures amid abandoned buildings, fancy parties, electronic spy networks, and high tech double-crosses, readers will surely look in the mirror and wonder who is responsible for this week's "New Look."
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The Memory Collector (Jo Beckett) Review

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The Memory Collector (Jo Beckett) ReviewYou are either going to love this novel or not like it at all. Meg Gardiner writes in a style that is very fast paced, based on an exciting premise and provides a thrill ride type journey. If being on the edge of your seat due to the action of a novel is enough for you then you will love this book THE MEMORY COLLECTOR.
Sadly, if you like your thrillers to contain deep psychological profiles of the characters then this book will not be for you. From main character forensic psychiatrist Jo Becket to the other major characters and the minor ones as well we only get to know them a little bit. They all have a purpose and a standard background but there is very little depth to them. They are needed to carry the story and that they do very well.
Actually this novel is what one would call a perfect BEACH READ. It is an exciting page turner that demands not much concentration from the reader. The author does leave you guessing and the ending is satisfying but I can't help but wonder what Meg Gardiner would come up with if she concentrated on psychological development of her characters. She handles the plot aspect skillfully. If she could add the same quality to the characters she would raise her standards to another level. But I do recommend this novel if a plot driven book is what you are looking for.The Memory Collector (Jo Beckett) Overview

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False Impression Review

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False Impression ReviewJeffrey Archer does two types of books. On the one hand he does the epic family thing, typically following a group of two or more people through their lives, observing their families, friendships, business triumphs and defeats, and loves and losses. Typically his characters in something like this are either business tycoons or politicians. On the other hand, he also does suspense novels, a sort of poor man's Ken Follett, with a writing style more on par with someone like Jack Higgins, though Archer's books are longer. False Impression falls into the latter category.
The plot centers around a millionaire art collector and megalomaniac who contrives to have people killed and wind up with their property without having to pay for it. He specializes in loaning money to people who have expensive art, and who won't be able to pay off their loans, especially not with the terms he negotiates. The book starts the day before 9/11/01, with him finalizing a "deal" that will bring him one of Van Gogh's self-portraits, worth tens of millions, for next to nothing. He runs into a snag, though, in that his office is in the World Trade Center. Though he escapes unharmed, he finds former and current employees working to sabotage the deal and see that the Van Gogh winds up in proper hands.
This is a reasonably good book, but it definitely has its flaws. The protagonists all sound British, and there's one scene in particular where a pair of truckers attack a woman, intending to rape her, for no other reason than that the author needed the plot device, and of course most Europeans think that sort of thing happens in America all the time. A few days after 9/11, it seems doubtful, to say the least. All of the characters come across as cardboard cut-outs, other than the English Lady who shows up way too rarely in the plot.
The above objections aside, the plot is relatively entertaining, and at least it reads fast. Whatever else he says or does, Archer has no pretensions: he's writing a potboiler, he knows it, and he doesn't bother to try and convince you otherwise. It's a good thing he doesn't.False Impression Overview

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Bone Song Review

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Bone Song ReviewI just finished reading this book today and it is so good that I had to write this review. The first thing I liked about this novel is the worldbuilding, which reminds me of the Addams Family. There's a similar gothic creepiness and dark humor. Imagine if the whole world were like the Addams Family! This parallel Earth, has perpetually dark skies, multiple sentient species in addition to humans, and "necroflux," which is a form of energy produced by the "dead."
In the story, cop Donal, uncovers a sinister conspiracy which among other things, murders artistic people for their vivid "bone dreams." They also want to deprive non-human sentients of their civil rites, which is reminescent of the X-men series. There are multiple twists and turns, including a major one for Donal. I can hardly wait for the sequal were Donal adjusts to his new "status."Bone Song Overview

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Tom Swift And His Motor-Boat Review

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Tom Swift And His Motor-Boat ReviewThis fine facsimile of a classic 1910 boys' adventure book would make a beautiful gift. Young people up to about age 14 would love it. Tom discovers a secret tunnel dug by criminals to access Swift Enterprises grounds and steal his secrets. He soups up a motorboat to get double the original speed. At one point, he fights for his life as he tries to outrace a boat full of gunmen from a criminal gang. Tom is kidnapped and imprisoned, but escapes. The style is lucid, simple, and clean for young readers. The setting of 1910 adds an exotic quality to today's readers. These were the best-selling boys books of all time, with possible exception of Hardy Boys. Your son or grandson would love it. In a beautiful reprint of the original edition.Tom Swift And His Motor-Boat Overview

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Garrett Takes the Case (Garrett, P. I.) Review

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Garrett Takes the Case (Garrett, P. I.) ReviewThis volume collects books 4-6 in the Garrett "saga", for want of a better word. This is some of the best of the Garrett years, offering different writing styles and character development aplenty.
Old Tin Sorrows is the fourth Garrett PI novel, and perhaps the best of them. This is a surprise, and it may be that Sorrows is simply the most memorable, as it differs significantly from the all other Garrett stories. It is a whodunit, with essentially no Dead Man, and Garrett off on a nearly deserted country estate for basically the entire book. There is a single, central mystery and while Morley Dotes makes an appearance, there is not a large supporting cast of offsiders - only suspects in a murder case.
The plot is reminiscent of Agatha Christie's "And then there were none" with Garrett called in to investigate a suspected poisoning by his old marine boss. Then people start dying one by one, and there is a (beautiful, female) ghost, a half-senile troll cook, and a bunch of battle scarred soldiers each dealing with his surviving the war in the Cantard in his own special way. Questions of motive and opportunity abound, and magic only adds a further complication.
Despite the lack of the Dead Man, and TunFaire, this really works. Its nice to see Garrett all on his lonesome, and thinking for himself (or trying to). If not the best, then Old Tin Sorrows is the most distinctive Garrett novel, and an example of the range and quality of Glen Cook as a writer.
Dread Brass Shadows is the 5th Garrett novel, and notable for a number of reasons as part of the continuing Garrett saga. With the hindsight of having read all 13 (at as publication of this collection) volumes, this book ends the chapter of Garrett's life as a freelancer untroubled by the bigger questions. After this, TunFaire is a different place for Garrett - and he is making a difference, not that he often sees it. This puts the excellent self-contained whodunit plot of Old Tin Sorrows behind Garrett, with the result we get to see a lot more of the Dead Man this time around - and Garrett perhaps starting to grow up.
As far as this story goes, it has Garrett dealing with a trio of redheads, introduces the unique Winger as a female version of Garrett himself, further develops the deadly Crask and Sadler, and in all this he is trying to track down a evil sorcerous book that allows the reader to change into anyone else, and as a result has thrown TunFaire - especially the nastier bits - into chaos.
Not to mention, this is personal now, since someone tries to kill Tinnie Tate in the first few pages of the book: Tinnie may not be Garrett's girlfriend - or, anyway, not the only one - but putting a knife in her back is a fast way to get on Garrett's bad side.
Dread Brass Shadows is another fine instalment the Garrett PI cycle. There is humor, pretty redheaded girls, uneasy alliances of conveniance, and innumerable shades of grey to consider. The characters we know and love (and those we don't love, too) are developing as people. There are no cardboard cutouts in Glen Cook's writing, and the people you think you know tend to surprise you a little at times.
Red Iron Nights -book 6- is a new beginning for Garrett. Crime Lord Chodo Contague is (involuntarily) semi-retired, and it is no longer a constant worry to Garrett to be thought his associate. On the other hand, Crask and Sadler now appear to be running the underworld, and that's not necessarily for the better, either. But it turns out that Chodo has a beautiful, crazy, daughter, who could really use a knight-in-shabby-armour to lend a hand.
Garrett is retained by the forces of law and order (as far as such things go in TunFaire) to investigate a Jack-the-Ripper like serial killer. As it turns out, the serial killer is more than he seems at first glance - there is an ancient curse involved, with magical glowing butterflies. There is also a mad street preacher, and things are beginning to change in TunFaire now. Maybe that's due to Garrett, indirectly.
So there is a killer to be caught, a mystery to solve, a pretty girl to rescue, and a pair of psychopathic killers to run out of town. That all sounds like a good day's work. As always, Garrett is on the case, and as always, TunFaire is a wonderfully set stage on which he can walk, stumble, trip, and fall. To top things off, the book ends with Morley Dotes thinking that Garrett could use a talking parrot as a new pet.
For any lover of genre fiction, whether fantasy, detective story, or anything else, the Garrett PI series is a must read.Garrett Takes the Case (Garrett, P. I.) Overview

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Gilded Latten Bones: A Garrett, P.I., Novel Review

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Gilded Latten Bones: A Garrett, P.I., Novel ReviewWell, not right now, I think. There are enough tantalising clues and loose ends in Gilded Latten Bones to stand another few stories. But the book opens with Garrett retired for about 18 months, living with Tinnie Tate, and someone trying to kill him (or maybe Tinnie) - and Morley Dotes too. The story is then about how Garrett gets his groove back and comes out of retirement. The veneer of calm that has been creeping over TunFaire of late is suddenly revealed as very thin.
To be uncharitable, not a lot happens for the first 200 pages of the book - its sleuthing all the way, although Garrett is not pounding the streets himself. At page 200, there is a little action and the Dead Man goes to sleep. Then another 130 pages of investigation and problem solving, and the last 20 pages tie it all up. There is very little dénouement, and a number of loose threads are left hanging at the end of the story. But every single word has meaning - either in this book, for a past story, or presumably some future one. There is plenty of tension even if the blades aren't flickering.
Bones continues the theme of the last several books of growing up and getting older - noticeably, on seeing all his old friends Garrett notes how they all look a bit more chased by Father Time. Presumably they could say the same about Garrett, but no one does. This is beautifully handled - of all things, this is a lovely character piece, about love and companionship, friendship and adulthood. There a lot of litle clues about the past and future scattered through the story - and if I had to guess, I would say that Pular Singe is writing all these Garrett tales down with help from the Dead Man: some shades of the literary method of the Black Company's Annals there.
Lastly, the book is chock full of surprises: without giving too much away, Bones is not a gentle continuation of where the last few books (especially Cruel Zinc Melodies) were heading. It's not a reboot, or anything of the sort, but Garrett has been set up for a whole new suite of adventures in a whole new sort of TunFaire.Gilded Latten Bones: A Garrett, P.I., Novel Overview

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Sweet Silver Blues (Garrett, P.I.) Review

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Sweet Silver Blues (Garrett, P.I.) ReviewSweet Silver Blues (1987) is the first fantasy novel in the Garrett Files series. TunFaire is an old city, with the royalty and wizards uphill and the criminals downhill in the slums. Outside the city are the estates of the rich.
In this novel, Garrett is an ex-Marine who has spent five hard years fighting the Venageti within the Cantard. After completing his enlistment, he hung out his shingle as a private detective. Now he has his home and office inside the city gates in the commoner section.
Garrett has a partner in the detective business. The Dead Man had been killed four hundred years previously, but is neither dead nor a man; he is a four hundred fifty pound Loghyr whose body might be dead, but whose mind is definitely still alive. He can read the mind of anyone within a score yards or so of his body and can project thoughts into the minds of anyone within the same radius. He is also capable of other psychic tricks within that restricted range.
The Dead Man is very smart and extremely well informed on historical details, but he is also incapable of moving on his own. Garrett is the active partner, gathering facts and reporting back to the Dead Man. The Dead Man compiles these facts and then deduces certain conclusions, often sending Garrett out to collect additional specific information.
In this story, a friend of Garrett has died and the registered will appoints Garrett as one of the executors. Denny Tate had been a cavalryman in the Cantard and had been in the lucky regiment that overran a Venageti treasure caravan. Denny mustered out with a goodly amount of metal.
When Willard Tate takes him into the basement to see his son's silver, Garrett finds much more than he expected. The basement contains one hundred thousand Karentine marks in silver and other metals. No way that could be Denny's share of the plunder. Willard explains that Denny had been trading in metals, buying gold when the price of silver is high and buying silver when the price of gold is high.
Denny's will left most of the fortune to Kayean Kronk. Supposedly she is an old flame from his army days, who had kept writing letters to Denny after he was returned from the Cantard. After Garrett finished reading a few of the letters, he knew that he would take the job. Of course, he would have to return to the Cantard to find the heiress.
Garrett takes Morley -- the half-darkelf -- and three grolls with him to the Cantard. Unhappily, Rose and Tinnie Tate end up sailing with them down to Liefmold, but Garrett makes a deal with the bargemaster to take the girls back to TunFaire. Morley and the grolls are seasick the entire way on the barge to Liefmold and then even more so on the coaster to Full Harbor.
This story has elements of noir detective stories. It also has some obvious similarities to the Nero Wolfe novels, yet Garrett shows more intuition and independence than Archie Goodwin. Once they reach Full Harbor, however, the plot begins to resemble an espionage thriller. Various groups begin to react to Garrett and his crew as if they are official investigators from the capital. Then people start to vanish after talking to Garrett.
Highly recommended for Cook fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of tough detectives, casual magic, and a dead psychic genius in the wings.
-Arthur W. JordinSweet Silver Blues (Garrett, P.I.) Overview

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